Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-12-18
MbeeIins Re9istes
CARLETON In ITALY.
THE POET FINDS no SUNNY SKIES But A
SNOW STORM.
The Famous ey 0: Aiaa-Gaculty Of Getting
American N~sws-Sidnight Sounds Of
an Italian Giy-Thpugh tho
Art Galleries
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leave some of its sights unseen; the other,
that there hngiug this morning in sunny
Italy" as lively and energetica snow storm
as we ever saw in Northern New York or
anywhere else. Bat we must travel
through it, for q hundred cities are waiting
to eat up u time; and even the little huts
on wheels, which Italians call railroad
coaches, will protect Us from the flakes.
The hotel omnibus bangs up to the door
with a tremendous flourish, and q pistol
like crack of the stolid drivers whip.
Our trunks are borne carefully up a ladder
tothe top ofthe wheeled ark, set carefully
down, and carefully closked from the
storm do not send word to them how yOg
do il, on baggagemasters Of America!)
Every servant that we have happened to
see while in this well-attended hostelry,
and several that had heretofore escaped
oar notice, gather to say good by, and
wish rs a pleasant journey among the
polar regions Of their beloved country.
They do not gather, by the way, in an
unwieldy throng, but in two ranks,
through which we are expected to march
slowly, distributing smiles, francs and cen
times as we CO. The clerk Of the estab-
lishment, whose only acquaintance with
his guests seems to have been to charge
them roundly for everything and collect
the money, insists for some reason on
shaking hands with all the passengers; and
50 We are Mt last spinning white rolls OF
distance into long threads OF miles and on
our way 10 the wOEld-famous city oil
Milan.
Past several ancient dilapidated villages
Of brick and stone, shivering in the storm
past olive orchards, looking like old apple
trees newly grated; past Yercelli, q town
OF 2O, 900, with ignorance and poverty at
the station, and a fine cathedral and libra
~ a few rods away: past Noyara, with
1900 people, several churches, and a
tower. the top of which must be very cold
to-day; past fourteen miles more, and we
halt at Magenta, the little town
made famous forever By the
great battle Of 1859. There are hun,
dreds OF white mounds in sight of the sta.
tjOE-eaCh with q cross at its head. Every
fourth of June the people have adecoration
ceremony, a. We do upon our thirtieth Of
May. They bring flowers here, adorn the
graves Of the fallen, and listen to music
and Orations. But the snow is throwing
white wreathes upon the little war-cem,
etcry to-day, as may be it is doing at Ar
liDgtOn and Gettysburg. Sixteen miles
more, and We have come to Milan, sur
named The Grand"
Milan is pronounced variously, and not
always without snObbiShneSs. Some peo-
pie who have been to Europe call ii
MILAN" some Mi-bn; while Edison,
the inventor, would probably tell Us that
he was born ut Milan, Ohio. This trying
to twist foreign names into q foreign pro-
nunciatiOn seems to be both illogical aud
unpatriotic. Let US Anglicize, or, if neces-
sary, Americanize, all foreign names we
can; for other nations put many Of our
proper names through q similar process.
Our train runs slowly into the large
railroad station, frescoed and adorned with
busts by several w~ell-known artists; we
declare firmly that our luggage has no
tobacco, and shiveringly watch the city
custom-hOuse man while he snifls at the
keyhOles of the trunks; we drive to one OF
the city gates, are again halted in
THE COLD, SNOWY NIGHT,
and asked if we hsYe any tobacco; We
again shake our heads s0rrowfully, and are
at last allowed to seek the shelter Of a
friendly inn.
We try to remember rs we drive along,
that Milan il the chief town of LOmbardy,
the northern division Of Italy, next east OF
Piedmont; that this State is about aslarge
rs New Hampshire, and has ten times as
many inhabitants; and that Milan itself
has over 800, coo of these, or almost ten
times a. many as,New Hampshire's chief
city. We remember that this large and
splendid town leads all Italy as an art and
musical centre, and possesses one Of the
most interesting cathedrals under the sky.
We feel that we are in a grand, glorious
city, fundamentally human world
wonder what We shall get tor supper.
Il is beefsteak, fried potatoes and what
ever We wish to drink, but no evening
papers, except French and Italian ones.
The former are all concerning Partisan
affairs and the latest ministerial scandal;
the latter we cannot read we'll enough to
get from them any comfort or discomfort.
America looks pretty large to an American
at q distance Of three or four thousand
miles, and we can fnd in none OF these
papers more than q mere mention of the
Western half of the world. We send
an Obliging ''commissiouaire" to ran
sack the town for newspapers concerning a
due recognition of the westward course OF
the star OF empire, and he returns with
that old-fashioned, four-paged Paris paper
-GdiigRdRi'S WeSSeRqer-whiCh has some
not very exciting American news, and the
London Times. The latter contains about
tan or twelve very placid lines from The
United States, - telegraphed in great haste
several days ago from Philadelphia-as
nearly all the TImes's American dispatches
are. Italy is a bad country to which TO
go away from home 10 learn the news "
Lying awake two or three hours at night
for travel ia work" and one sometimes
gets too tired to sleep. Lying thus awake
Il is interesting to listen to the night-voiee
OF this city, as it comes from the nearly de-
serted streets. HOof-beSts of horses and
their attending carriages; Bacchaualian
songs of. jewellers, ehording together as
perfectly IS 50 many flutes; some man or
boy whiStling accurately . difficult opera
us he strOlls beneath the window; five or
six different church bells in the weird dis
lance tOlling each hour, and one Of them
chanting the entire time every fifteen min
utes-these are some Of the sounds that
night can bring from the streets and dOmss
OF the great Lombard city.
MORNING IN MILAN
a misty diSsgresable opening of the day,
with mora snow. 1t is not the kind OF
weather in which 10 view 0 great catho,
dral, hardly the kind Of weather for any
thing; but travel is work," and we must
work. The 'Brers, "a picture gallery and
museum, is open, and contains . few uots,
BILE paintings-Only = few-for there are
not very many in the world.
Here is the "BetrothSl Of the Virgin
By Raphael, who Is thought by many to
have been as truly inspired as any prophet
that ever lived. He was born just nine
years before Columbus discovered America;
he died when only thirty-seyen years old.
But his development was very rapid and
symmetrical; he seems to have been a sort
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